
Nadia Nadim: 'I'm actually the picture of everything the Taliban don't want their women to be'
CNN
Nadia Nadim remembers the moment she fell in love with football.
She was in Denmark when she saw some girls kicking a ball around on a field, uninhibited. "That's the first time I got to see that girls actually did play football at the schools. And right away, I fell in love with the game," the 33-year-old soccer star tells CNN's Becky Anderson.
Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











